#D'espairsRay

[genmusou]

+D'espairsRay+

SHOXX Vol.112 (2002年6月号)

[zealotsleazoid]

Mh...

[taiyonikorosareta]

[legality-graphics]

Anything D'EspairsRay Related?? This could be dividers ,graphics ,ect. (Specifically to the Vocalist : Hizumi !,,but anything Related to the band is fine!)

D'EspairsRay graphics!

credits: @f0rbiddenh1zumi, @/micalemer (deviant art), @/Momo-Gazerock (deviant art)

Some of these were ripped from a now defunct D'EspairsRay fan site from the 2000s cos I thought they were cool :3

As always, if your graphic is here and you would like it removed, just let me know!

[mouldymp3rotations]

1224-016

BIRTHDAYMONTHです!

I use this as an excuse to dump 10 songs on you instead of the usual five :D

Last year's Birthday Month 10 Favourites

As usual : Song titles link to individual mp3 file download

All 5 songs can also be downloaded together in a zip file from the link at the bottom

Let's go !!

BLOOD - Blood ft. Exo-chika

This is easily in my top 3 favourite BLOOD songs ! The old version is good too, but I saw this being released as both a BLOOD and an Aural Vampire fan, so i'm forever gonna be biased towards this one lol :)

This version of Blood was on the Dead-Hearted maxi-single, released in 2007 (this might or might not be my rip, but yeah, file is old lol)

Blutengel - Seelenschmerz

Is anyone shocked that my re-exploring the visual kei i was listening to 20 years ago made me want to also re-explore the rest of what I was listening, back then ? Of course, some of that meant Blutengel. I went to see what happened between now and then, and really, a lot of their stuff is forgettable and I always end up annoyed at Pohl's fake deep voice sdkjasfkhjfkhj. But I still fucking love Seelenschmerz aaaaaah !!!! And i still owe Blutengel for being my introduction to darkwave and it's entirely because/thanks to their influence that I fell for Schwarz Stein eheheheh

Seelenschmerz was the title track of the album released in 2001

Chanton L'amour - L'horloge

SONG OF ALL TIME.

SONG

OF

ALL.

TIME.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chanton L'amour was a short-lived side-project of Machi from Lareine ♥ And this one absolutely is my rip (look, i don't remember buying this either but I have it, therefore I definitely bought and ripped this :) )

L'horloge was the title track of the single single they released, in 2001

(pleeeeease let her diiie ok, she asks so nicely ;^; )

D'espairsRay - Squall

I got my partner into D'espa, this year, and this is the song that completed the conversion lol :D

Squall was a single released in 2007.

(seriously, what was it with early-mid 2000's vk and their PV taking place in derelict buildings....)

Dalida - Parle plus bas

Oups, here's Dalida again kjdjskdhjkndjkds. Yes, that's the Godfather's song. Actually, you might know this as Speak Softly Love. I'm of the opinion that this is the best version of that song to exist. I love her voice soooo much T^T/♥

Parle Plus Bas was a single from the album known as Il faut du temps, if you're French, but Dalida otherwise, all from 1972

HIM - The Sacrament

For real, i don't care much for Ville Valo, but that song has been sticking with me for about 20 years, now, so I guess it means something :3

The Sacrament is from the 2003 album, Love Metal.

(ftr, this is what i'm expecting Lestat IWTVAMC to generally look/act/sound like but blonde, if the promo vid/song is to be believed lol)

L'Âme Immortelle - 5 Jahre

L'Âme Immortelle was in a similar basket as Blutengel, to me. But when I caught up with them, I found that they had everything I liked about BlutEngel and then some ! So I've been getting more familiar with the more recent stuff, which means that I got to hear the album version of 5 Jahre ! I had only heard the shorter, single version !

5 Jahre was found on the 2004 album, Gezeiten.

The video is for the single version (i wanted the clip !), but the mp3 I'm sharing is the long version from the album :)

Nightwish - Edema Ruh

I feel like Nightwish has become a product more than a band, in the past 20 years (ngl nightwish with Floor Jansen is a huge disappointment, but that's another story and shall be told another time (all I want is a studio recording of storytime gothdamnit 😤)), but still, sometimes they still have songs that catch me. Edema Ruh is one of them, or at least the synth caught me lol.

Edema Ruh was found on Endless Forms Most Beautiful, released in 2015 (imo their last album maybe worth listening, especially if you fell off after Tarja was kicked out, but please don't hate on Anette Olzon though. We don't pit women against each other, here.)

Pierre Lapointe - Dans la forêt des mal-aimés

I think from now on, I will make a point to include at least one québécois song in my birthday month compilation, as a little personal challenge, but also because i'm from there lol.

This song, like for most of Québec, was my introduction to Pierre Lapointe. This album, at the time, gave me hope that being musically weird would be more acceptable, in the province's music scene. It didn't. Now dude's a fucking coach on our version of The Voice 💀💀💀

Dans La Forêt Des Mal-Aimés was a single off of La Forêt Des Mal-Aimés, released in 2006

Rentrer En Soi - PROTOPLASM

Oh no ! Another song of all time !

Not only is this my favourite Rentrer en Soi song, but I think this is one of the best visual kei song ever made ;w;/

Protoplasm was single released in 2006

So yeah, my favourite genre of music is still dramatic and happy birthday to me :D

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[corneille-moisie]

Hello people !

I run @mouldymp3rotations where i hand out at least 5 free mp3s per month :3

For pretty much the rest of the year, I will be focusing on visual kei bands that built the foundations for my love for vkei, which is turning 20 this June !

I already posted the first one here (I thought I would get the obvious ones out of the way lol)

Now, I have several packs ready to be turned into post, but i don't know where to start, so I thought I would ask :)

[blanktriptych]

Stuff a sweet ex despa bangya gifted me...

[alienorchids]

D'espairsRay - Live Tour 2006 [LIQUIDIZE] -融合スル体温-

POBE-14101

2006

[f0rbiddenh1zumi]

D'ESPAIRSRAY COLL:SET ALBUM BLINKIE?

idk what else to post,im basically soending the day working on rentry stuff and homework.expect more stuff!! don't be shy to request anything

[nat-bunny]

D'ESPAIRSRAY NEO GENESIS Vol.39

[ivoirin]

Zetsubou ROMANCE Released in 2001 (this audio taken from the second press released in 2002.06.05 ) Writers : Hizumi, Tsukasa

瞼を閉じれば流れていく涙の跡を拭う 夢の中での出来事ならばと何度も瞼を開き... 重ねた日々が走馬灯のように流れていく... もう戻れないよ 足を一歩踏み出せばそこは楽園��呼ばれる場所 もうすぐそこへ逝くよ ただ君に逢えることを願い... 絶望の鍵が二人を引き離し亡者の歌声が僕に手を招く 脳裏に焼き付いた君の面影を探しているのに嘆き声だけが... どれくらい歩いただろう... 何処まで続くのだろう... 灼熱の日に照らされ渇いた僕の心... 空を見上げるとそこに光が溢れていた 痩せ細る指が掴む一筋の蜘蛛の細糸 糸の先に辿り着けばそこは楽園と呼ばれる場所 もうすぐそこへ逝くよ ただ君に逢えることを願い... 絶望の鐘が互いを遠ざける君の歌声は聞こえているのに 脳裏に焼き付いた君の面影を探しているのに嘆き声だけが... 消滅して逝く魂とかなわぬ君への想い涙と共に塵と化して...

[genmusou]

[zealotsleazoid]

Need to learn how to draw them properly

[taiyonikorosareta]

[sonnaya-ustalaya]

Yukari Ohba designs for D'espairsRay

image source: (click link)

[mouldymp3rotations]

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And here is the seventh and final part of my 20th anniversary series !

Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI

As usual : Song titles link to individual mp3 file download

All 6 songs can also be downloaded together, in a zip file, from the link at the bottom

I believe I might have accidentally saved some of the best for last haha. Either this goes hard or it just follows the goth way i've been on, rencently or both :D

+DéspairsRay+ - Marry of the blood

I promise the file is properly tagged, i just missed spelling it that way lol.

Marry of the blood was found on the MaVERICK maxi-single, released in 2003

Eliphas Levi - rebirth

When I discovered that song, it was wrongly labeled as Dir en grey, so I literally spent years not really investigating and thinking this must have just been an old song or something XD So I actually discovered Eliphas Levi by accident lol

Rebirth was the middle track of the リデルの赤い書物 (LIDDEL no akai shomotsu), released in 1998

(yes i chose this one on purpose lol)

Eve of Destiny - You Killed Me First

Of course, me being the kind of person who wants to know everything about everyone interesting, i wanted to know what Közi did after Malice Mizer, so of course I came across Eve of Destiny. And i come from a goth background, musically, so if was just bound to happen, really :)

You Killed Me First was apparently only released on a compilation for the German magazine Astan, in 2003

fiction - LUCIFERという名のお人形 (lucifer to iu na no oningyou)

This is another song I found on a rotation blog :D Along with Luci'fer's tsubasa orareta vampire, from the same rotation, they became my introduction to Luci'fer Luscious Violenoue's music :)

Lucifer to iu na no oningyou was the title track of the album, released in 1997

Madeth Gray'll - Lucifer

The iconicest of the iconic songs ! If you only had one song from Madeth Gray'll to listen to, that should probably be it :3

Lucifer was found on the Lucifer~魔鏡に映る呪われた罪人達と生命の終焉~ (Lucifer ~ makyou ni utsuru norowareta zaijintachi to seimei no shuuen~) album from 2000

Bonus :

Dir en grey - THE FINAL

:D

THE FINAL was a single from 2004 indeed :)

.zip file ♥HERE♥